Finished this about a month or so ago but couldn't seem to get decent photos. Well, I took her outside this evening and shot these. I thought they turned out better than the others I'd done so I'm going to post these:

A little background information: the Type 3 was a late war attempt by the Japanese Imperial Army to create a more advanced tank by merging the turret of the expermental Type 4 complete with 75mm gun to the hull of the dependable Type 97. Therefore you ended up with a reliable tank with a decent gun but still with very weak armour. The Japanese turned out somewhere between 250-300 of these for the Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands. They were all held in reserve and never left Japan, so none saw combat- all going straight from the factory to the tank depots and then to the scrap yard. This kit features a longer upgunned 75mm than the version that was actually produced so it's actually a paper panzer version of the real thing.

Apparently one popped up on Girls und Panzer: 

A few in-progress shots: 

A few odds and ends: 

Not totally happy with the streaking, I think it ended up overdone and wish I hadn't used as much but not really crazy about repainting the whole darn thing. 

Forgive me, I don't know much about thatched roofs, I looked up some sites on the internet but still don't think I did that good a job on it. Hopefully it doesn't distract from the tank too much. 

I wanted some propaganda posters but couldn't find much in Japanese. So I decided to paint the kanji for 'RESIST' on the wall there in big red letters. I think it gets the point across   

Anyway just for kicks two photos of her with the Type 5 Chi-Ri I'm working on now: